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London Fashion Week (LFW) is finally here and I can feel the buzz in the air. One thing about LFW is the hectic schedule that everyone has which involves hotfooting it to shows all over London, attending launches and smoozing at the various parties. All this plays havoc on your feet and not to mention your mobile phone that really works overtime tweeting, texting, emailing, snapping pics and instagramming. The last thing you want is to be stranded with a dead phone. So those clever people at Anymode have come up with a wireless charger for the Samsung S3.

You can charge your phone and battery or spare battery by placing it on the charger which connects to an electricity supply. The advantage is that the spare battery can also be charged without the phone needing to be connected ensuring that you never run out of power wherever you are. The charger is very light so can be shoved into your bag with all your other essentials. It is also environmentally friendly with a solar panel which can be charged up any time and anywhere very quickly. Ever so handy for when you are caught out. I found the charger to be very user friendly and also very light to carry around. You literally just throw it in your bag and you are off and ready to go. It’s such a relief not having to worry about accessing a charger point or trying ti stuff your actual charger cable in your bag.

So after a lot of umming and urring, tooing and froing I have finally snapped my the Samsung Galaxy S III. I was torn between the Samsung Galaxy S III orS3 as it is known and the Samsung Note II but the S3 won due to practicalities and good old fashioned economics. I was planning to use the Note as a mini tablet and maintain my Blackberry Bold but that was not possible due to the fact that you cannot have the same mobile number operating on two phones and it makes no sense to have two separate sim cards. With S3 I can use it as a phone and a micro tablet so the decision was made. I picked up the phone on Saturday and I chose the pebble blue as blue is my signature colour. I have heard how great the S3 is but I was not prepared for how fabulous it turned out to be. The concept of the S3 is that it is inspired by nature, it is designed to see, listen, respond, and enables you to share the greatest moments of your life. Well I can confirm that it lives up to its words.

First of all the camera function is amazing and rivals any DLSR and makes every image you take look clear and crisp. The camera syncs with Google so you have all your data ie contacts, calender and emails on tap. Also the web browser is excellent and loads quickly – the phone is even powerful enough for you to watch videos on it. The best thing about having an Android phone is the amass of wonderful apps that are at your disposable. With Blackberryyou are more or less an outcast and do not have access to decent apps, so to be able to experience the wonders of Instagram and Kindle is awesome. Even the apps that I was using on my Blackberry such as Whatsaps, LinkedIn and Facebook are enhanced on the S3. What I love about the S3 is Google Maps, on the Blackberry it was total pants but on the S3 it works like a dream. I tested it on Monday when I headed off to the BenefitXmas do and it got me there safe and sound.

Ok the touch screen takes a while to get used to, the prescriptive text can be annoying and I will admit that the phone is a bit on the large side in comparison to the Blackberry but all I need is a great case and I will be home and dry. The only downsides that I can think of is that you have to charge it quite a few times during the day. I charge it at night and then once again during the day. Luckily it has a facility where you can see how much battery life you have left and you get a signal when the phone is fully charged. The S3 comes with 16GB so I don’t need to worry about running out of space with all my images bur considering that it has Picassa on it which holds all my old images then that is a good thing. I can confirm that the S3 is a joy to use. Together with the Griffin Stylus Pen that I was gifted by the kind ladies from Talk PR I am ready to take on the world.

The Samsung Galaxy S III is available on all major mobile network providers.

Pic taken from Flickr thanks to JonR Cook

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Blogger: Ronke Adeyemi

I guess you can say that I am a bit of geek who loves stylish tech gadgets. Style & Tech is my blog that puts the sexy into the tech industry. I will be covering the latest laptops, digital cameras, tablets, the coolest software and apps, as well as stylish accessories for your mobile phones, iPads and tablets.